------------------------------------------------- DRAMA Origin of Greek tragedy and comedy Drama‚ in the western world‚ begins with ancient Greece‚ where the two major forms of drama ……….. tragedy and comedy ………..were an aspect of religious ritual. Greek tragedy is believed to have begun in the sixth century B.C. with Thespis who introduced the first actor on the stage. The first dramatic dialogue lies in the conversation of this actor with leader of the satiric chorus. The dramatic element was subsequently added by
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English 10000 8 May 2012 The Sea After reading The Old Man and the Sea‚ written by Ernest Hemingway‚ I found the most interesting part of the book to be the sea itself. One can almost consider the sea another character‚ due to the vital role it plays in the short novella. The sea provides a glimpse at Santiago’s knowledge and experience that he has acquired throughout the course of his life. As well as the sea is used as a metaphor to the literary community‚ if one looks at it this way
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ma ORIGINAL TEXT: (Act 1‚ Scene 2) O that this too too solid flesh would melt‚ Thaw‚ and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fix’d His canon ’gainst self-slaughter! O God! O God! How weary‚ stale‚ flat‚ and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world! Fie on’t! O fie! ’tis an unweeded garden‚ That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely. That it should come to this! But two months dead! — nay‚ not so much‚ not two: So excellent a
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skills (Frost‚ Wortham‚ & Reifel‚ 2001; Perkins‚ 1984; Santrock‚ 2003) and the ability to use what they already know to construct new knowledge. It can be seen as some parts in this story portray the life of people in Malaysia hundred years ago. It will make them learn and think about the situation. For example‚ the children can learn on how to weave clothes or pounding the rice. Both skills are not familiarly practiced nowadays so the children gain new knowledge from here. Not only that‚ the story also
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as Doctor Faustus‚ is a play byChristopher Marlowe‚ based on the German story Faust‚ in which a man sells his soul to the devil for power and knowledge.Doctor Faustus‚ a well-respected German scholar‚ grows dissatisfied with the limits of traditional forms of knowledge—logic‚ medicine‚ law‚ and religion—and decides that he wants to learn to practice magic. He begins his new career as a magician by summoning up Mephastophilis‚ a devil. Despite Mephastophilis’s warnings about the horrors of hell‚ Faustus
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RADIO PLAY/DRAMA The English word ‘drama’ derives from the Greek word ‘dran’ meaning ‘to do’. Thus a drama is a story performed or ‘done’ by people on stage‚ radio‚ film‚ TV‚ on the street. A drama involves a chain of events and describes a web of relationships involving one or more persons. It could be fiction or non-fiction. The main Components/ELEMENTS of a RADIO drama: I. Plot_____________________________________________________ The chain of events or actions in which the characters
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Government‚ the founding of the Royal Society‚ the experiments and holy meditations of Robert Boyle‚ the hysterical attacks on theaters from Jeremy Collier‚ and the pioneering of literary criticism from John Dryden and John Dennis. The period witnessed news become a commodity‚ the essay developed into a periodical art form‚ and the beginnings of textual criticism. The dates for Restoration literature are a matter of convention‚ and they differ markedly from genre to genre. Thus‚ the "Restoration"
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FINAL PERIOD ELEMENTS OF DRAMA Drama comes from Greek words meaning "to do" or "to act." A play is a story acted out. It shows people going through some eventful period in their lives‚ seriously or humorously. The speech and action of a play recreate the flow of human life. A play comes fully to life only on the stage. On the stage it combines many arts those of the author‚ director‚ actor‚ designer‚ and others. Dramatic performance involves an intricate process of rehearsal based upon imagery
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brought him into conflict with the government and other community leaders (Barlow 2003). Perkins being an Aboriginal activist he fought for the right of freedom for the Indigenous community‚ the group that Perkins formed was known as “The Freedom Rider”‚ with this group both Indigenous and non-Indigenous parties were able to achieve a positive outcome (Gunson 2000). His involvement in the ’Freedom Ride’ through rural New South Wales in the early 1960s played a crucial role in bringing attention
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the southern authorities.” Freedom riders were civil rights activists who would travel on Greyhound and Trailway buses into the segregated Southern United States in 1961. They did this to challenge the non-enforcement of the Supreme Court’s decision in 1946 of the Morgan v. Virginia which made segregation in interstate transportation
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